Quick Warning
Please be aware that beyond the large boom gate (immediately adjacent to the Municipal Chambers) is an active mining area and not to be entered by members of the public. For your own safety, do not deviate from the public main road into Mt Morgans Municipal Chambers by vehicle or on foot.
Town History
Gold was first discovered near the present town site of Mt Morgans in 1896 by Harry Lilley’s prospecting party.
A year later the lease was sold to Alfred Edward Morgans who represented a British syndicate. Morgans renamed the operation the Westralia Morgans Mine, floating the shares on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Gazetted in 1899, the town was named after Morgans, who was to become Member for Coolgardie and in 1901 served as Premier of Western Australia.
By 1903 Mt Morgans’ population reached 1,250 and the town had more than 500 buildings including six hotels, a hospital, a workers’ hall, police station, four general stores, five specialist retailers, a school and two pharmacies.
In 1911 the town’s biggest employer, the Westralia Morgans Mine, went into liquidation. A new company took over the lease and by 1914 the mine was back in production until 1928.
Production from the area was very intermittent but the townsite survived until 1952. Employing modern open cut mining methods, the mine reopened in 1988 for nine years and, after another long closure, went back into production in 2009. The mine is now underground and produces gold today.
Although the old town site is now home to modern mining company buildings, the restored Mt Morgans Municipal Chambers remain, along with the cemetery and part of the old railway station platform.
The Chambers Building
The Mt Morgans town council (formed 1900) was initially housed in a rented temporary building until the Municipal Chambers were completed in October 1901. They were built by Mr W Spicer for £183 and were situated on Town Lot 29, their present location.
The Municipal Chambers building itself is open to the public to peruse the historical displays within.
Please enter the Municpal Chamber through the small gate in the fence opposite the cache location, occasionally this gate has a chain keeping it closed because of the cows, it is only dummy locked. The buildings behind are private offices.
Also visit the old railway station and the Mt Morgan cemetery if you have a suitable off-road vehicle. Both sites show impressive memories of this ghost town (and there are awesome caches at both!!).
The Cache
It is a micro utilising a permanent feature as its container, the logs are easily removable, there is no space for trackables/treasure and you will need to use your own writing implement.
Prize for First-to-Find is eternal glory and goes to Oorschi117 
An honourable mention goes to MorgoTheGeo aswell for Second-to-Find.